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Broken Water Main Brings Flooding And Boil Water Notice To Victoria Park

Joe Cavaretta
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South Florida Sun Sentinel
Workers disinfect and power wash Northeast Fifth Street at the Victoria Park neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, three days after a sewer main ruptured.

Crews in Fort Lauderdale are working to repair a pipe break for the seventh time in the last month — but at least this time it isn’t sewage flooding the streets.

A contractor working in the area of Northeast Fourth Street and Seventh Avenue struck a 12-inch water main on Wednesday afternoon, which sent water flooding the streets of Victoria Park.

The City of Fort Lauderdale issued a precautionary boil water notice effective immediately to the properties in Northeast Second Street to Northeast Fifth Street between Northeast Seventh Avenue and Northeast Ninth Avenue.

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